After reading about the future shutdown of Le Cordon Bleu in America, it appears that Career Education CEO and President Todd Nelson is blaming our federal government for his incompetence at business problem-solving and strategic deal making.

You can bet that Le Cordon Bleu, “the largest network of culinary and hospitality schools in the world with more than 50 schools in 20 countries that train about 20,000 students each year,” will send its foreign students and graduates to work in our hotels and hospitality industry as a treasonous move to push more American workers into the unemployment and welfare abyss.

If it weren’t so tragic, it would be funny. I speak of the juxtaposition of headlines on the San Bernardino massacre and the spiraling costs of health care.

But what you failed to address regarding these two issues is that our country’s economy and politics are owed lock, stock and barrel by giant corporations, in these cases the gun manufacturing industry and the HMOs and Big Pharma. They and other corporate giants hold Congress hostage. Congress then is impotent to promote the common welfare.

The NRA is nothing but a gun lobbyist/shill and the HMOs and Big Pharma keep us captive, fattening their obscene profits by gouging us and behaving like pigs at the government trough.

The majority of the public wants sensible gun control and a single payer, Medicare-for-all health care system that would take the for-profits out of the driver’s seat.

But as long as corporations are running the show, we will continue to see these problems. Corporations, by their nature, can’t have morals or values. They don’t care about people’s needs. They only care about new markets and cheap labor. They will do anything to maximize profits and minimize their costs.

I hope people finally understand that we must defang them by overturning the Citizen’s United ruling and abolishing the fantasy of “corporate personhood.” Otherwise, these unspeakable tragedies will continue and health care costs will continue to spiral out of control.

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